Geoffrey Fosgate, DVM, PhD, ACVPM

Professor, Veterinary Epidemiology

Dr Geoffrey Fosgate is a Full Professor in the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences at the College of Veterinary Medicine. He completed his undergraduate and veterinary training at Cornell University. He spent two years in rural mixed-animal practice in upstate New York with an emphasis on herd health and dairy cattle medicine. He subsequently completed his PhD in Epidemiology at the University of California, Davis. His PhD research focused on the diagnosis and control of brucellosis in domestic water buffalo of Trinidad and Tobago. After completing his PhD, he obtained board certification from the American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine. He spent his early academic career at Texas A&M University where he taught veterinary epidemiology to DVM and graduate students. While in Texas, his research was focused on Johne’s disease and other infectious diseases of cattle. A desire to expand his expertise related to international veterinary medicine then took him to the University of Pretoria, South Africa, where he continued to teach veterinary epidemiology and perform research related to infectious diseases of production animals. His research in South Africa had a strong focus on transboundary animal diseases, especially foot-and-mouth disease. He has a passion for international development and was a US Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal prior to starting his veterinary degree. Dr Fosgate’s primary teaching responsibility is the veterinary epidemiology course in the DVM curriculum.

Dr Fosgate’s research focus is the epidemiology of infectious diseases with specific expertise on the validation of diagnostic tests for the surveillance and control of infectious diseases of livestock. He also has extensive experience in biostatistical consulting and clinical epidemiology. He is a co-Editor-in-Chief for the journal Preventive Veterinary Medicine, the leading international journal for veterinary epidemiological research as well as serving on the editorial boards for four other international journals. He has published extensively within his field of expertise and has a passion for training graduate students. More information concerning his career can be found on his ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9432-0042.